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What does Raymond Carver reveal about one’s identity? Raymond Carver reveals the identify in people with the similarities of his characters and everyday humans, like you and me. Characters in his stories are the are peopled with the type of lower-middle-class status. Carver’s fictional world is a place where people are average everyday people; some strange, never perfect, just normal. Living the lives as waitresses, mechanics, postmen, high school teachers, factory workers, and door-to-door salesmen

right of the beginning with: “And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movie, the blind moved slowly and never laughed”, this very quote showed me the author did not care this man was blind nor did he have an understanding of blind people. He made his own guess based on watching a movie and this feeling was true to him as this is what he believed. This quote also showed me that he

story about a blind man who stays with the narrator and his wife, and the personal growth of the narrator that takes place throughout the night. The story opens at the home of the narrator and his wife as the blind man, who is an old friend of the wife, is on his way to visit his recently deceased wife’s relatives. Conflict in the story stems from the narrators apparent distaste for blind people and him not wanting a bind person to stay in their home. Throughout the night the wife and blind man discuss

“Thou Blind Man’s Mark” dramatizes the speaker’s inner desires versus his realistic and virtuous side that denounces desires. The first three lines open up the subject of desire with, “Thou blind man’s mark, thou fool’s self chosen snare,” that continuous to listen very different types of people that have desires. The introduction of the blind man’s target is also important as it shows the Speaker’s opinion of desire as a whole. Desire is seen as an unrealistic hope and something opposite of reality

Carver uses irony to show that the narrator, does not know his wife. He feels “sorry for the blind man” who had never seen his wife, unaware of his own 'blindness' to his wife's need for emotional intimacy. When the wife shares her poetry, about “what she had felt” he is uncomfortable and unable to give her an honest reaction.”I didn't think much of the poem. Of course, I didn't tell her that” . The deep emotional connection that Robert and his wife enjoyed is beyond the narrator's understanding

relationship his wife has with an old friend: “They made tapes and mailed them back and forth. I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me.” (165). The fact that he was upset about the visit of his wife’s old friend is troubling, but to dislike a man he does not even know because he is blind is beyond insensitive. Even though he is not saying these things aloud, he is still having these thoughts.

or Seeing Making prejudgments about someone can give you a very wrong understanding of a person. In “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the narrator is not fond of having his wife’s blind friend over to stay at his home. He makes rude comments and makes jokes about blind people even though he does not know anything about a blind person, just things he has seen in movies. Something one can take from “Cathedral” is that there is a difference between looking and seeing and the difference can make or break

In all cultures, there are people struggling for survival. Some are starving, some are living in sheer poverty, some are thrown into slavery and some just cannot get their footing; but in all of these situations there seems to be a common theme that presents itself over and over again. Many of these people become so desperate to live they will give up their morals and give in to whatever they can to get by. Occasionally, there is one person stronger than the rest, one able to hold onto their morals

visit their home. He begins to describe Robert, the old friend, who is a blind man. The narrator emphasizes on how he has a limited point of view on blind people in general. Robert’s own wife, Beulah, had died recently of cancer. The narrator then begins to tell about his wife’s past, as the story flashes back. He includes details on her previous – and also unnamed – husband, but focuses on how she became friends with the blind man. The narrator then describes about his wife’s attempted suicide, and

“Robert had done a little of everything, it seemed, a regular blind jack-of-all-trades” (Carver 264). Robert is the influential blind man with a unique ability of “sight”. He is not blocked by the blurred vision of stereotypes or the mentality that he may be unable to perform certain actions. A visit to an old friend transforms into a spiritual reunion for the narrator. In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”, Robert’s, the blind man, meaningful “sight” creates a new, optimistic outlook on life